原文
Mrs. Lynde drove home, meeting several people on the road and stopping
to tell them about the hall. The news flew like wildfire. Gilbert
Blythe, poring over a text book at home, heard it from his father's
hired boy at sunset, and rushed breathlessly to Green Gables, joined on
the way by Fred Wright. They found Diana Barry, Jane Andrews, and Anne
Shirley, despair personified, at the yard gate of Green Gables, under
the big leafless willows.
語彙など
- wildfire:野火
- pore over:読みふける
- breathlessly:息を切らして
- despair:絶望
- personified:〜の権化
- leafless:落葉した
- willow:柳